Prosecution Insights
Last updated: September 17, 2026

Dürr Dental SE

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

2
Hard (50%)
1
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (25%)
§103 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
75% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 1 77.5% +0.8%
GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M 1 80.6% +12.9%
MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 1 16.7% +40.0%
TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. 1 82.6% +14.8%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19073135 DATA RECORDING DEVICE GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M —

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18908695 DETECTION OF JAW ARCH GEOMETRY MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO —
18641262 SENSORS UNIT AND AIR COMPRESSOR SYSTEM WITH SUCH A SENSORS UNIT TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. —

Interview Candidates (3)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19073135 DATA RECORDING DEVICE GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M —
18908695 DETECTION OF JAW ARCH GEOMETRY MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO —
18641262 SENSORS UNIT AND AIR COMPRESSOR SYSTEM WITH SUCH A SENSORS UNIT TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3991 1
2117 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19201284 System And Method For Providing Imaging Parameters LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 3991 Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19073135 DATA RECORDING DEVICE GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2025
18908695 DETECTION OF JAW ARCH GEOMETRY MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18641262 SENSORS UNIT AND AIR COMPRESSOR SYSTEM WITH SUCH A SENSORS UNIT TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. 2117 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 19, 2024

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